Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-05

State. and it, therefore, was absolutely
necessary to hold possession of it, as a
Territory belonging to the United
States until it Was settled and inbabi-
ted by a civilized Community, capable of
] s9lf government. and in a condition, TO
be admitted on equal terms. with the
other States. as q member of the Union
Are,the People OF Dakota not a ciyi-
liz d community, MIR. Bill Springer?
Are they not capable of sell govern
ment?
Are they not in q condition to be ad.
mitted into the Union?
LII they. are, then the time has
passed when the Supreme Court say
that Congress has o lawful right to hold
them as o colony.
Ii so, then they have q right TO form a
state and q "Permanent Government"
If they have that right then Congress
has no longer the lawful right to govern
them as q colony or q territory.
If Congress has no such right, then
IL is territorial Government Is illegal.
Ifso then the People have the right to
set it aside.
Who can deny these premises?
No onel
WIN tutu Gau uSuS tue CpucluSluRS
This decision has never been reversed
and il 10 now the fundamental and SUI
pieme law OF the land.
The Supreme Court Gays:
That the Federal Government has NO
lawful poser to MAINTAIN Colonies; nor
TO rule and govern them at its own
ritery permanently; and that q Territory
81, ,nNnsra1 10 hanor,a n Gtnko and rnnpk
be admitted as soon as its population
and condition eptitle il to admission.
Springer says thu congress has 1ower
to hold the Territory as long as 10
pleases. as Q territory. Aud it need not
be admitted until Congress pleases to
admit it.
Springer stubs his toe again, against
The Constitution.
Our own Organic ACT, as does the
Unltsd States says that "The Territory is
prganised into a Temporary Government
by the name Of the Territory OF Dako-
ts."
Springer is contradicfed by the Dec
leratIon of Independence, by the Ordi-
panee OF 1887. by the Constitution, and
by the Organic Act.
THE TNDICrMENTAGAIEsT TIE TEMPORARY
GOVERNMENT CONGRESS OVER DAKOTA.
See for q moment what kind of q gov
ernment We have:
i The laws which we're enacted by
II Q last Legislature are not yet pub
Not . map, woman.or child in Dakota
EnoWs what laws he is living under.
Not alawyer can advise his client
silly.
IL is nov over four months since these
laws we're en6oted.
2 1t is q notorious fact that our
Courts are not able to transact from one.
half TO one tenth Of the legal business
which coraes before them. Some OF
Them, Against all law known to English
speaking countries, if We ore to believe
The reports pnblished, threaten to pun
ian jnries by fines and imprisonment if
they do not return verdiotB IN criminal
cases In accordance with the will of the
Judge. A Jefferies could not go farther.
Our supreme court OF its last session
d. cided t~hirty-two cases.
Their opinions will not even be fled
fer almost q year.
Here | dasire to soy, that this fact is
bot at all any reflection upon Chief
Justice Trip or his associates.
This Territory has never had on ADLER,
more honest. nor more laborIous indge
than Judge Iripp. Iu learning, ability,
character; courtesy to ell, and in every
lnality that BELTS o Judge, and sdorns
the btneh he excels.and is in all respects
pne of the beHt and ablest judges of the
Northwest,
Dakota is proud of him and Cleveland
honored his administration when he ap.
pointed him.
But it Is the fault of the system. 1t is
impossible under q, Territorial Govern
ment to have o judiciary that can meet
The wants and needs of the people.
Our present judicial system Is o far
,ical treyesty OF III justice.
d The expenditures OF our Territorial
last six years doubled with each sue
ceeding session.
AZ the last Bees On they amounted to
one million and q half of dollars.
5 Our Legislature is composed of q
small bodypf men,not n fourth part of
the number which are necessary for such.
D population as ours.
Not a State in the Union would be vii.
ling for q moment to entrust the public
pnree i nd the grea. intei ests OF their
peoflslo such q small be dy of men as
compose the Legislature of Dakota, I'M
der the dictatIon of Congress.
The little State of New Hampshire
thinks it is necessary to have fourhundred
representatives in its lower house, with-a
population OF BAT GOO over one repre-
sentative for each 1000 people.
Tbia Ia for tho reaapn that fOur hmm.
dred men cannot begin TIC be manipu-
lated, managed, bought and controlled
as readily as forty men. Dakota with
nearly twice the population of New
Hampshire. and seventeen times Its size
has forty -eIght men in it's lover house,
or one representative for every IL ZOO.
6 One half our taxes are paid for
school purpose when two million acres
OF school land, which belong to our peo-
Pile, which are pledged to them irrevo-
oabiy by the compact of the Ordinance of
1857, as we'll as by the provisions of the
Organic Act arelying idle and useless
because Congress has shamefully neg
iected Its duty in admitting Dakota to
the right OF self Government.
Z Worse than all this an immenRe
quantity OF Ties school lands are I'M
surveyed, and while they are unsurveyed
they are open to settlement to the frst
conner. Every section of school lands
TINS lost to the school fund, is lost ire
yoeably for the reason that although the
law gives O state-when we become a
state-the power to select lands in other
places, yet there is now LETT no place in
the United States where such selectlons
can be made upon land Of any value.
By the time Dakota becomes q State
the oply public lands left will be the
sage and sand deserts. and the bed lands,
and the rocks of the mountains Of Neya4
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